The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-02

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heat OK the hive some four degrees, and
they must die unless they leave their heat
ed apartments; and they follow the mother
bee and alght on the branch of tree, and
cling to each other and hold on until
committee of two or three have explored
the region and found the hollow Of a tree
vi fovh uOU lar Oil from q stream Of water;
and they here set up new colony, and ply
their aromatic industries, and give them
selves to the manufacture Of the saccha-
rine edible But who can tell the chcmis-
try of that mixture of sweetness, part OF
1t the very life of the bee and part Of 1t
the life Of the feldsl
Plenty Of this luscious product was hang
ing in the woods of Bethaven during the
time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army
was in pursuit Of an enemy that by Gods
command must be exterminated. The
soldiery were positively forbidden to eat
anything until the work was done. II
they disobeyed they were accursed. Com
ing through the woods they found place
whore the bees had been busy, great
honey mandatory. Honey gathered in
the hollow OF the trees until it had
overfowed upon the ground in great pro-
fusion Of sweetness. All the army obeyed
orders and touched 1t not save Jonathan,
and no not knowing the military order
about abstinence dipped the end of a stick
he held in his hand into the candied liquid,
and, Us yellow and brown and tempting,
it glowed on the end of the stick, he put it
to his mouth and ate the honey. Judg-
ment fell upon him, but for special inter-
vention he would have been slain. In my
text Jonathan announces his awful mis-.
take: II did but taste little honey with
the end Of the rod that was in my hand,
and 10, must die" Alasl what multi
tudes Of people in all ages have been dam
aged by forbidden honey, by which,
mean temptation, delicious and attrac.
tive but damaging and destructive.
Literature, fascinating but dreadful
comes in this category. Where one good
honest, healthful book is read now there
are one hundred made up Of rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity. When the
boy on the cars comes through with q pile
of publications look over the titles anc
notice that nine out of ten of the books arr
depicting and injurious. All the way from
New York to Chicago or Now Orleans
notice that Objectionable books dominate
Taste for pure literature is poisoned BY
this scum of the publishing houses.
Every book in which sin triumphs Owe
virtue, or in which glamour is thrown
over dissipation, or which leaves you at it
last line with less respect for the marriag
institution and less abhoranco for the para
mour, Is depression of your own mora
character, The book-bindery may be at
tractive, and the plot dramatic and start
ling, and the style Of writing sweet as tn
honey that Jonathan dipped up with hi
rod, but your best interests forbid it, you
moral safety forbids it, your God for
bids it and one taste Of it may lead to sue
bad results that you may have to say a
the close of the experiment, or at the clos
Of misimproved lifetime: 81 did bu
taste q little honey with the rod that wa
in my hand, and, 10, Unjust die. |"
Corrupt literature is doing more to-da
for the disruption of domestic life than an
other cause. Elopements, marital in
trigues, sly correspondence, fct
tious names given tpost-offic
windows, clandcstine meetings
parks, and at ferry gates, an
in hotel parlors, and 'coujugal periurie
are among tho damuable results. When
woman, young or old, gets her head thol
oughly stuffed with the modern novel, sh
is in appalling peril. But some ono wi
say: 1.-THE heroes are so adroitly knavisl
and the persons so bewitchingiy untru,
aud the turn of the story so exquisite, an
all of the characters so enrapturing, ca
not quit them" My brother, my siste
you can find styles Of literature just q
charming, that will elevate and purify
and ennoble, and Christianizs while the
please. The devil docs not own all tn
honey. There is wealth Of good boo,
coming forth from ~1r publishing house
that leaves no excuse for the choice Of tn,
which is debsuching to body, mind an
soul. Go to some intelligent men {
wemen aud ask for q lis. of books tn,
iii h afran tAanin1 Ia vour mental An